What's more important than what you use is just picking an approach you are comfortable with and practicing. I've seen bad edges coming out of a $1000 sharpening machine and razor edges coming from $5 worth of sandpaper.
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Question for Wood Turners
- Thread starter ptelite
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This.
Sharpening in one of the footnotes that you can get totally consumed with. Some people it's a goal unto itself - they have high power magnifying glasses to examine their edges, and wax eloquent about the molecular structure of the steel in their tools, and that's fine for them.
As FMG notes, plenty of very good turners are satisfied with a piece of plate glass, and hardware emery cloth.
It's like bullets, you have one group that weigh the brass, spins the brass, weighs each charge, weights each bullet, sorts everything by weight, measures the length of every component, and so on, to make loads for his 6.5 X 61 custom rifle.
Then you have the other group that buys a box of shells from Wal-Mart for his .30-06. At the end of the day, they both pretty much kill the same amount of deer.
